(A)   Purpose. The B-1 Office Park District is intended to provide a district primarily for office uses, with other accessory retail and service uses offered on site to serve the primary use or their employees.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for employment, or commercial, development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   Purpose. The B-2 Neighborhood Retail Business District is intended to provide a district which encourages compact centers for retail sales and services that serve the adjacent neighborhoods and to preserve and protect the general character of the adjacent areas. The city has determined that certain uses may present a greater impact on adjacent land uses than others due to characteristics unique to the function and design of the particular use.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for commercial development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   Purpose. The B-3 General Business District is intended to provide centralized areas for businesses that have a community or regional customer base in that they generally draw customers from farther away than the adjacent neighborhoods.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for commercial development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   Purpose. The B-4 Vehicle Sales and Showroom District is intended to provide areas for vehicle sales businesses that draw from a regional customer base and has outdoor storage, display and/or sales of vehicles and/or recreational equipment.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for commercial development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   Purpose. The BP Business Park District is designed to provide areas in which to locate businesses that enhance the city's tax base, have few customers coming to the site, but may have a large employee base, involve manufacturing, warehousing, office uses, and other accessory retail and service uses offered on site to service the primary use or their employees. The properties and buildings in this district must be designed to promote a campus-like setting that exhibits a landscape theme and high-quality exterior building materials.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for business park development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   Purpose. The I General Industrial District is designed to provide a district for warehousing and industrial uses that may present negative off-site impacts to adjacent properties and are potentially environmentally sensitive due to the characteristics of the use of the property, and may have outdoor storage requirements.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those areas designated for industrial development on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   The PI Public Institution District is intended to provide for a district for public buildings, uses and needs that otherwise may not fit into other zoning districts because of their specialized land use needs and public purpose.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for institutional uses on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   The OP Open Space and Parks District is intended to provide for a district for areas that contain valuable environmental qualities which are to be preserved as park or open space amenities and to prevent the over-crowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, a specific public purpose, and/or alleviate the burden of development from environmentally sensitive lands.

   (B)   This district may be applied only to those properties designated for parks or open space uses on the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map.

(Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24)

   (A)   The purpose of this subchapter is to establish minimum area and dimensional requirements for nonresidential zoning districts to allow conformance with the policies of the Comprehensive Plan, promote open space around structures, provide green area and space for the enjoyment of all, and protect public easements.

   (B)   General requirements. The following standards are established for the following districts: B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, BP, I, PI, and OP:

      (1)   Unless otherwise approved through a site plan approval all non-residential uses on parcels adjacent to single or two-story residential uses in residential districts must be constructed at a height no greater than 40 feet. Consideration to approve greater height may include, but not limited to, existing conditions, increased setbacks, and buffering.

      (2)   Height limitations do not apply to radio and T.V. antennas, belfries, steeples, cooling towers, and water towers.

      (3)   The minimum height for a principal building on any property must be no less than 15 feet in height as measured from the highest adjacent grade to the top of the roof.

      (4)   In the PI district, for each one foot greater than 60 feet of building height, as measured from the highest adjacent grade to the top of the roof, the required front, side, and rear setbacks must be increased one foot.

 

      (5)   Principal buildings and accessory structures must comply with the setback restrictions from property lines within the nonresidential districts. See Table 152.608.2.

      (6)   The setback to an interior side or rear property line(s) may be reduced to zero feet where a property has a railroad trackage abutting the interior side of the lot.

      (7)   The following features may extend into the required setback from a public right-of-way:

         (a)   Three-feet pilasters, lintels, stoops, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, bays, gutters, and similar projections; and

         (b)   Canopies, awnings, and other similar features as regulated by the International Building Code. These elements may extend into the right-of-way upon approval of an encroachment agreement by the City Council.

      (8)   Accessible building entrance components may encroach into the setback to meet the running slopes required by the Minnesota Accessibility Code.

 

 

   (A)   Purpose. The following section establishes a listing of the permitted, conditional, and temporary uses for the B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, BP, I, PI, and OP zoning districts. The uses have been assigned to the appropriate business districts to allow reasonable use of properties in a manner that is compatible with the purpose of each business zoning district and the overall purpose of this zoning code and the code of ordinances.

   (B)   Permitted and conditional uses for each business district are defined in the following listed in Table 152.609.1. See § 152.903 for additional performance standards for nonresidential uses.